AQA A Level History Breadth Study: The making of a Superpower: USA, 1865-1975 June 2019 question paper 7042/1K

Using your understanding of the historical context, assess how convincing the arguments in these three extracts are in relation to the US governments’ economic policies from 1929 to the end of the 1940s.

‘Laissez-faire policies, in the years 1865 to 1890, were economically damaging.’

Assess the validity of this view.

‘The Immigration Acts of the early 1920s were the result of social tensions arising from immigration since the 1890s.’

Assess the validity of this view.

How successful were attempts by US governments, in the years 1955 to 1975, to reduce Cold War tensions?